a. [UN-1 7.] Not appropriate to, or characteristic of, the clergy or a clergyman.

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1762.  Foote, Orator, I. Wks. 1799, I. 201. Many individuals … are obliged to have recourse to very unclerical professions for the support of themselves and families.

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1788.  V. Knox, Winter Even. (1790), II. xiii. 88. I have no doubt but that it is one reason why many clergymen are seen to take delight in unclerical occupations.

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1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxiv. I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting.

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1865.  Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, ii. A very unclerical gesture of—to say the least—impatience.

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  Hence Unclerically adv.

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1883.  Harper’s Mag., June, 5/2. The … canons unclerically … fell upon him.

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